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I'm not doubting you, but it is bizarre to me. here a news station has a helicopter, but there LE doesn't. it is truly very hard to understand.
How far can a helicopter fly in 30 minutes?
"It could be possible to fly further, but it is not really practical. They carry 2 hours 45 minutes worth of fuel and normally plan on a 30 minute reserve, so in 2 hours and 15 minutes flying at 100 knots they can cover 215 nautical miles (250 miles)."
Given the remoteness of the area, it simply isn't practical to have a helicopter available within a radius of a couple of hundred miles from a potential crime that may never occur.
With having to refuel every couple of hundred miles, they would need refueling capability along any potential route that they might need to fly. The cost would simply be prohibitive for such a vast northern wilderness.